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	Leonard House 44 - 46 Elizabeth Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B1389	'Leonard House' was one of the few commercial works designed by Walter Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahoney Griffin. It was an eightlevel building and constructed in 1924 of highly original design. Its most remarkable feature was a window-wall that covered the entire seven storeys. It can be considered to be the first 'curtain wall' or glass curtain/non-structural wall in Australia. The building was also remarkable for incorporating the Griffin's unique decorative ... more	B1389	Demolished
	Former Buckley & Nunn Men's Store David Jones , Leonard House , Kodak House 294 - 296 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4053	Beside a retail site occupied by Buckley and Nunn since 1851, architects Bates, Smart and McCutcheon designed a ground level and three upper levels of retail space to be completed by builders E.A.Watts in 1934. In that year the building won the Royal Victorian Insitutite of Architects' Street Architecture Medal; the jury stating that it was a distinct departure from the traditional and thus exemplary of the modern trend in design. Like the later Kodak House (1934-5) and the ... more	B4053	State

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Leonard House

44 - 46 Elizabeth Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B1389

'Leonard House' was one of the few commercial works designed by Walter Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahoney Griffin. It was an eightlevel building and constructed in 1924 of highly original design. Its most remarkable feature was a window-wall that covered the entire seven storeys. It can be considered to be the first 'curtain wall' or glass curtain/non-structural wall in Australia. The building was also remarkable for incorporating the Griffin's unique decorative ... more

B1389

Demolished

Former Buckley & Nunn Men's Store

David Jones , Leonard House , Kodak House

294 - 296 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4053

Beside a retail site occupied by Buckley and Nunn since 1851, architects Bates, Smart and McCutcheon designed a ground level and three upper levels of retail space to be completed by builders E.A.Watts in 1934. In that year the building won the Royal Victorian Insitutite of Architects' Street Architecture Medal; the jury stating that it was a distinct departure from the traditional and thus exemplary of the modern trend in design. Like the later Kodak House (1934-5) and the ... more

B4053

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